Ezra Levant fired a journalist for not having the correct "political identity"

A veteran journalist was fired from The Rebel, a right-wing website owned and operated by conservative commentator Ezra Levant (who would like you to believe he's a champion of free speech and journalistic integrity, by the way), because the journalist did not display the correct "political identity."

"Your larger political identity" is "confusing our audience," Levant elaborated, adding that "an important part of The Rebel – in both commentary and activism – is to be a champion for social conservatives and Christians; at least that they ought to be welcome in the public square."

"In my judgment," he concluded, "we need to take a break from your brand."

Coren's column does debunk some of the more outlandish arguments against the sex ed curriculum and, at one point, suggests some critics "have not read the document" and "are opposed to pretty much any sex education outside the family."

Coren's column also points out critics "frequently complain that the new teaching exposes children to homosexuality" and "there is the fact that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is gay and as much as it might be denied, I can assure you that some of the leading and loudest opponents of the curriculum have never been comfortable with her being a lesbian."

But that's no ad hominem – it's demonstrably true.

Campaign Life Coalition, Canada's biggest anti-abortion group and a key group pushing the sex ed backlash, wrote that "the gay-activist Premier of Ontario" was giving in to the demands of "groups who advocate for the normalization of sadism, group sex, anal play and viewing pornography."

Coren also criticized the "pernicious and irresponsible" allegation that the curriculum was designed by convicted pedophile Ben Levin, with "the implication made by many critics that it's all about prematurely sexualizing and grooming of children."

One day before his column, Levant himself stated in a Rebel video that "it feels like the fingerprints of Ben Levin are over this ... when you look at it through that lens – of course – you're teaching young boys and girls to be sexually available. How can that not be such a flashing red light for everybody?"